Function,geometry and spatial prepositions: Three experiments |
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Authors: | Coventry Kenny R. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Centre for Thinking and Language, Department of Psychology, University off Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | In this paper the results of three experiments are reported whichaddress the issue of the relative extent to which functionalrelations versus geometric relations affect spatial language. Theexperiments examine the role of a discourse context on the useand rating of the preposition in to describe a visual scenewhere the constraint of spatial containment between figure(object located) and ground (reference object) does not hold. Allthree experiments demonstrate that in is used more andrated to be significantly more appropriate in a functionalcontext than in a no context condition. The implications of thesestudies for spatial language and spatial representation arediscussed. |
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Keywords: | function geometry in spatial prepositions |
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